Facebook fails: More social media blunders

Waitress Ashley Johnson was fired after complaining on Facebook about a £3.46 tip. It means she joins the profile page hall of infamy, featuring users who’ve landed in hot water after uploading dangerously frank posts. Check out these examples of why Facebook should be handled with care.

Facebook fails: Be careful about what you post on your wall

Facebook party pics shock for landlady A landlady evicted her tenants after they posted pictures of their wild house parties on Facebook.

Carolyn Lorimer threw the couple out after logging on to the social networking site and seeing the snaps showing her property being wrecked.

‘I was absolutely shocked,’ said Miss Lorimer. ‘I couldn’t believe what I was seeing – people jumping on the furniture, dancing on the kitchen table, holes in the walls and smashed TVs. It looked like a slum.’

The 26-year-old was told by an agency that the two-bedroom flat in Folkestone, Kent, had been let to a ‘very nice middle class couple’.

But she said it soon dawned on her that ‘they were actually a bunch of massive chavs’.

The tenants fled, owing £1,350 in rent, after being served with an eviction notice.

Miss Lorimer was left to foot the bill for the clean-up and at least £700 in unpaid utility bills

‘Traitor pig’ fiance’s boob fondle caught on Facebook A furious fiancee dumped her boyfriend after catching him fondling another girl’s boobs on Facebook just days before their wedding.

The angry fiancee, named only as Valeria A. by Italian media, plastered posters all over the Italian capital Rome when she saw snaps of her husband-to-be, identified only as Antonio M. by Italian media, embracing another woman on the social networking website.

She and a pal printed and stuck up hundreds of posters at train stations and office blocks around the city where her fiance and their friends work.

“Thank goodness there’s Facebook! At least I’ve discovered you’re a traitor pig before the wedding! Signed, your former betrothed bride and the 548 guests of our wedding,” wrote Valeria, 28.

Prison officer fired for Facebook inmate friendships A prison officer was sacked after becoming friends on Facebook with current and previous inmates.

Nathan Singh, who worked at HMP Leicester, was fired for gross misconduct after an investigation.

The Sun newspaper reported that 27-year-old Singh made friends with 13 criminals on the social networking website.

It is believed they included burglars, fraudsters and someone who had stabbed someone to death outside a nightclub.

A Prison Service spokesman said: “Following an investigation, a prison officer from HMP Leicester was dismissed in for gross misconduct.

“He had been associating with serving and former prisoners, outside the course of his employment and without authority.

“We take inappropriate relationships with prisoners very seriously and staff who break the rules are liable to be dismissed.

“We carry out thorough checks when we recruit prison officers, looking at character and criminal records as well as nationality and identity.

“The vast majority of our staff are honest, hard-working and professional. We work to create and support a culture which values integrity above all and rejects corruption and dishonesty.”

My boss is a ‘pervy w**ker’ This is a classic Facebook faux pas, with the foolish Facebook poster delivering a multi-layered and expletive-ridden diatribe against her place of work.’Lindsay’, not content with stating that she hated her job on her status update, proceeded to call her boss a “total pervy w**nker”. Not only that, but a “pervy w**nker” who makes her “do s**t stuff” just to “p*ss her off”.

Then, so that no one was in any way unclear about what she thought about her line manager, she signed off with “W**NKER”.

What Lindsay seemed to have forgotten, was that she was Facebook friends with her boss. And he wasn’t happy. At all.

OMG: Classic Facebook fail

He replied: “I guess you forgot about adding me on here? Firstly, don’t flatter yourself. Secondly, you’ve worked here 5 months and didn’t work out that I’m gay?

”I know I don’t prance about the office like a queen, but it’s not exactly a secret.

“Thirdly, that ‘s*** stuff ‘ is called your ‘job’, you know, what I pay you to do. And lastly, you also seem to have forgotten that you have two weeks left on your six-month trial period. Don’t bother coming in tomorrow.

“I’ll pop your P45 in the post and you can come in whenever you like to pick up any stuff you’ve left here. And yes, I’m serious.”

Sacked for calling Virgin Atlantic passengers ‘chavs’ Thirteen Virgin Atlantic cabin crew were fired after posting comments on Facebook that can only be described as plane stupid.

The silly stewards and stewardesses had used Facebook to criticise the airline’s safety standards â and label passengers “chavs”.

And they didn’t stop there. They also said that Sir Richard Branson’s planes were full of cockroaches.

They were sacked for “bringing the company into disrepute”.

Travel agent sent packing after ‘smack the brown-nosing cow’ commentEmma Short, who worked as a travel agent in Coventry, was fired after using her Facebook page to criticise another employee.

The Westwood Business Park worker wrote on her profile page that she’d “never been so angry” and wanted to “smack the brown-nosing cow in the face”.

Even though only family and friends could see the comments, she was still dismissed.

Sacked for calling job ‘boring’ on Facebook An admin worker claimed she was sacked from her job after branding it “boring” on Facebook.Kimberley Swann said she was shocked to be marched out of the office for comments on the social networking site. “I didn’t even put the company’s name, I just put my job was boring,” she said.However, the 16-year-old’s employer, Ivell Marketing and Logistics, based in Kimberley’s home town of Clacton, Essex, said they did everything by the book.”Employers need to recognise they employ real people, not robots, and should grow slightly thicker skins,” said the TUC’s Brendan Barber.